Non-Human Identity
Non-Human Identity (NHI) is an increasingly critical discipline focused on managing and securing digital identities that are not tied to individual human users, such as service accounts, APIs, workloads, containers, bots, and IoT devices. As organizations adopt cloud-native architectures, automation, and AI-driven systems, these machine identities now vastly outnumber human identities and require robust authentication, authorization, credential lifecycle management, and continuous monitoring.
Non-Human Identity (NHI) is an increasingly critical discipline focused on managing and securing digital identities that are not tied to individual human users, such as service accounts, APIs, workloads, containers, bots, and IoT devices. As organizations adopt cloud-native architectures, automation, and AI-driven systems, these machine identities now vastly outnumber human identities and require robust authentication, authorization, credential lifecycle management, and continuous monitoring.
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